Hi allI'm close to start painting the SA-4 Ganef from Trumpeter. For the missiles the instructions call for a Medium Gunship Grey which obviously is far too dark.Airfix Model World features an article with Aluminum and Silver missiles and AFV Modeller features another article with no paint reference but with a grey color for the missiles.

My understanding is that the missile body was painted some light grey shade with some panels aluminum or silver.Which grey reference would be suitable? I mainly use Tamiya paint and only acrylic paints.I haven't been able to determine the right color from reference pictures hence this post.

Looks like oxidised, or maybe anodised to natural oxide colour, aluminium to me.It could be some sort of heat resistant paint with an "oxidised aluminium" colour. Use some very fine grained metalizer paint?/ Robin